The Chinese Communist government launched its biggest crackdown on Christians in years over the weekend, detaining dozens of pastors from “house churches,” including Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, the founder of one of China’s biggest evangelical churches.

“What just happened is part of a new wave of religious persecution this year,” said Sean Long, a U.S.-based pastor and spokesman for Jin’s Zion Church.

Long said almost 30 pastors and church members were detained across China in the crackdown, and about 20 of them remain in custody.

Pastor Jin has been detained on the charge of “illegal use of information networks.” His daughter Grace said he and the other detainees have not been allowed to meet with lawyers, and she feared her father would not receive the medicine he needs to treat hi

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